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Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness:
Europe = silence
Africa = incomprehensible frenzy (madness)
● Africans have no choice
● Conrad admits that white colonisers committed all sorts of evil, however he
doesn’t see Africans as equal people
● Marlow is an alter-ego of Conrad
● Africa is just a background, a battlefield (metaphysical battlefield devoid of all
recognizable humanity)
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